Stacking dependence and spin-Peierls state in layered, triangular cluster magnet Nb3Br8

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Materials containing triangular structures of magnetic moment are an important pathway to studying unconventional magnetic phenomena that arise from the geometrical frustration. In particular, van-der-Waals (vdW) containing 2D frustrated layers of magnetic moments have been at forefront of studying new materials that can be utilised in creating nano-scale heterostructures and devices. Nb3Br8 is such a vdW compound in which Nb3Br13 clusters form effective spin-1/2 objects that occupy 2D triangular layers. The stacking of these layers changes dramatically at a phase transition near 385K. The low temperature magnetic behaviour indicates a spin-Peierls gap opening, but alternative models exist. We propose to investigate the magnetic ground state, putative spin-Peierls gap and the electron spin dynamics as a function of temperature with positive muons as local magnetic probes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98003753
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98003753
Provenance
Creator Mr Chris Pasco; Dr Franz Lang; Dr Peter Baker; Professor Tyrel McQueen; Professor Tom Lancaster; Professor Stephen Blundell; Dr John Wilkinson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-15T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-18T08:30:00Z